That article was 100% on point. Trump damn near deliberately botched it from the beginning, but Biden is only slightly better.
The biggest mistake was to give an artificial end date. I understand people were getting antsy, but the most important thing is to..
Manage Expectations
If you told people, from the start..mask up (originally they said DON'T wear one)
Then quarantine as much as possible and when they saw they couldn't control the spread, shut down completely.
That's when the spread got in check. The vaccine was months away.
But, they let it be known that they wouldn't shut down again...and I knew THEN, that if this thing continued or mutated, which is what viruses do....we'd be screwed.
Right now, we're back to over 100k+ cases daily and different variants...some we know...some I'm SURE we haven't seen yet.
Smartest thing to do now would be to shut down, but that wouldn't happen now, til people were dying in the streets.
Instead, we have football stadiums at capacity...